Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — Measure of Coin. [ARTICLE]

Measure of Coin.

Money is measured by troy weight, \n which twenty-four grains make a pennyweight, twenty pennyweights one ounce and twelve ounces one pound. The silver dollar weighs 412% grains, and SI,OOO, as near as It can be expressed intelligently in print, weighs 71,014 pounds, or a fraction over sev-.enty-one and one-half pounds. In avoirdupois the same would weigh 58.928, or nearly fl/ty-nJne pounds.